Responsible Management

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Topics:

• common good/common welfare
• sustainability
• ethicology paradigm
• corporate social responsibility (CSR)
• resource management implications stemming from sustainability
• transaction costs and their impact on the triple bottom line
• systemic relationship of people, profit and planet
• consequences on the planet from consumer/society, business and macro-related behaviors
• circular economy
• cradle-to-cradle (C2C) and cradle to grave (C2G)
• impact on KPIs and national indicators like GDP
• Apply learnings in creating suggestions for possible C2C, CSR or triple bottom line solutions

Management entails taking responsibility for decisions made that impact all stakeholders of the organisation. The purpose of the course in the programme is to identify stakeholders normally not considered, understand the legitimacy of their interests and finding ways to recognize these in decision and change measures to be taken.

Students will be able to:

• Understand key terms such as common good/common welfare, sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the ethicology paradigm
• Analyze how the above terms contrast with “doing business as usual” today and what implications for resource management and transaction costs result from it
• Understand how current international ecological consequences stem from the systemic relationship between consumer/society, business and macro-related behaviors
• Understand the systemic implications of circular economy and cradle to cradle (C2C)
• Understand the implications for company key performance indicators (KPIs) for CSR reports and national indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP), and impact on the triple bottom line
• Apply learnings to suggestions for possible C2C, CSR or triple bottom line solutions

_ Lectures
_ Discussion
_ In-class films

- Simulation Gaming
_ Homework and in-class presentation
_ Presentation with feedback

Presentation

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Empfohlene Fachliterature:

• Glauner, Friedrich: Future Viability, Business Models, and Values: Strategy, Business Management and Economy in Disruptive Markets (CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance). Springer Verlag, 2018.
• Mavropoulos, Antonis et al: Industry 4.0 and Circular Economy: Towards a Wasteless Future or a Wasteful Planet? (International Solid Waste Association) (Englisch). Wiley, 1st Ed. 2020
• Stahel, Walter R.: The Circular Economy: A User's Guide. Routledge, 2019. Braungart, Michael and McDonough, William: Cradle to Cradle (Patterns of the Planet). Vintage, 2009.
• McDonough, William and Braungart, Michael: Study Guide: Cradle To Cradle. Independently published, 2019.

Empfohlene Media-Ressourcen:

• Scott, Jared P. (director): Age of Consequences, 2016. Netflix
• Leonard, Annie (narrator): Story of Stuff. Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM
• Morgan, Andrew (director): True Cost, 2015. Netflix
• Soechtig, Stephanie et al.: Tapped, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzntuXdE8dY
• Schnell, Urs. Bottled Life: Nestle's Business with Water, 2012. Amazon Prime.

Face-to-face instruction with mandatory attendance